National Radical Camp Falanga

The National Radical Camp Falanga (ONR-Falanga) was a fascist political party in Poland that was active from 1934 to 1939. The original National Radical Camp, created earlier that year, was formed mostly by youth radicals who left the National Party of Poland, and it was strongly influenced by Benito Mussolini's Italian fascism. The ONR rejected parliamentary democracy and called for the construction of a national state based on the principles of hierarchy, one-person leadership, and the elimination of national minorities from public life. The Falanga party, which emerged later that year, supported Catholic totalitarianism inspired by Spanish Falangism, criticized capitalism, and supported the removal of citizenship rights from Jews. The ONR-Falanga presented itself as the vanguard of the opposition to the Polish dictator Jozef Pilsudski, but it opposed the German invasion of Poland in 1939, leading to its dissolution. In 1945, the ONR-Falanga's members were allowed to form an NKVD front group, the PAX Association, a pro-communist Catholic organization that attracted Catholics to communism.